Cognitive revolution

The "cognitive revolution" is a name for an intellectual movement in the 1950s that combined new thinking in psychology, anthropology and linguistics with the nascent fields of computer science and neuroscience.

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Psychology - Anthropology - Linguistics - Computer science - Neuroscience

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In psychology, the movement was a response to behaviorism. Experimental psychology had been heavily influenced by Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and other physiologists, who had defined psychology as the science of behavior. Because mental events are not publicly observable according to their theory, behavior evidence is the only objective measure available. They proposed that psychology could become an objective science based on scientific laws of behavior in subjects.

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Behaviorism - Ivan Pavlov - B.F. Skinner - Physiologists

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The field of cognitive psychology developed in a response to this field of study.

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